Southern Vermont College Chooses ByWater Solutions' Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Southern Vermont College Library in Bennington, VT is now live with their installation of the Koha open source ILS.

ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Southern Vermont College Library’s 20,000 items and 1,500 patrons and will be providing ongoing hosting and Koha Support services for them. Their custom mobile-friendly OPAC can be viewed at http://libcat.svc.edu/.

“Our switch to Koha was a no-brainer. We got glowing reviews of ByWater from our peer institutions in Vermont. We are saving money, the conversion was relatively quick and painless, and we are happy to have done it! Koha’s functionality and flexibility is wonderful, and we love that we can have a voice in how it evolves: that was just not possible with our previous vendor. As a very small college without dedicated tech staff in the library, we love the responsiveness of ByWater’s team. We look forward to what the future brings!”

About Southern Vermont College:
Located on a mountainside campus overlooking the Green Mountains, Southern Vermont College aspires to be a model of an enlightened educational community: diverse, supportive, environmentally respectful and socially responsible. Through its career-focused liberal arts curriculum, Southern Vermont College endeavors to transform students into engaged citizens with a broad perspective of an ever-changing society. Whether students find themselves drawn to Business, Humanities, Nursing, Science and Technology or Social Sciences–the College’s five academic divisions–SVC seeks to immerse students in the concept of becoming lifelong and dynamic learners. At the same time, Southern Vermont College encourages students to combine classroom learning with real life, real world experiences, through internships and learn-by-doing projects. In short, Southern Vermont College may be small in size but it is most assuredly not small in the skills and self-confidence that it strives to give its students. For more information about Southern Vermont College, please visit: http://www.svc.edu/

About Koha:
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies,XHTML, CSS and Javascript,making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/

About ByWater Solutions:
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: /